Lori A. Ringhand

B.A., University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire
J.D., University of Wisconsin
B.C.L., University of Oxford

Courses:

Constitutional Law
Election Law
State and Local Government

Biographical Information:

Lori A. Ringhand teaches courses on constitutional law, election law, and state and local government law. She has been a member of the School of Law faculty since 2008 and was named a Hosch Professor in 2012.

She is a nationally known Supreme Court scholar and the author of the book Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings and Constitutional Change (with Paul M. Collins) published by Cambridge University Press. She also is the co-author of Constitutional Law: A Context and Practices Casebook, which is part of a series of casebooks dedicated to incorporating active teaching and learning methods into traditional law school casebooks. Ringhand recently received a Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award to spend the spring 2019 semester as a visiting professor at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Her Fulbright research will explore the different approaches to campaign finance regulation taken by the United States and the United Kingdom.

Ringhand served as the law school’s associate dean for academic affairs from 2015 to 2018 and as a UGA Provost’s Women Leadership Fellow in 2016-17. She has received the law school's highest teaching honor, the C. Ronald Ellington Award for Excellence in Teaching, in 2010 and 2015; and the John C. O’Byrne Memorial Faculty Award for Furthering Student-Faculty Relations in 2017.

Ringhand graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she served as an articles editor on the Wisconsin Law Review. She also holds a Bachelor of Civil Law degree, awarded with distinction, from the University of Oxford. Before coming to UGA, she served on the faculty of the University of Kentucky College of Law and as a visiting scholar at the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law.

The Rehnquist Court: A By The Numbers Retrospective, 9 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1033 (2007) (an early draft of this paper was selected from a competitive call for papers and was presented at the First Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, jointly sponsored by NYU, Cornell and the University of Texas law schools).